Carson first laid eyes on the Atlantic Ocean after she graduated, while traveling by boat from Manhattan to New Bedford, Mass., on the way to a summer job at the Marine Biological Laboratory at ...

What Carson's descriptions most bring to mind is the sentient ocean of Stanisław Lem's 1961 sci-fi classic Solaris —and that same sense of being in the presence of an unknown, unnerving being ...

Rachel Carson, the power of wonder, and me. By Michael Sims The ocean was not the native habitat of Rachel Carson. She was born amid the tumbled hills near Pittsburgh, in Springdale, one of many ...

Mary Silver, professor of ocean sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to give the Rachel Louise Carson Lecture at the Spring American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Assembly in May. The invitation ...